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Before all things is God, the author of all, whom we call the Good itself. God first creates the Angelic Mind, then the Soul of the World, as Plato wishes, and finally the body of the Universe. This supreme God is not called the World, because "World" signifies an ornament composed of many things, and He must be understood as entirely simple. But we affirm this God to be the beginning and the end of all Worlds. The Angelic Mind is the first World made by God. The second is the Soul of the Universe. The third is all this edifice that we see. In the beginning, God creates the substance of the Angelic Mind, which we also name essence. This, in the first moment of its creation, is without form and dark. But because it is born from God, through a certain innate appetite, it turns back toward God, its principle. Turning toward God, it is illuminated by His ray, and through the splendor of that ray, its appetite is kindled. Once kindled, it draws entirely close to God. In drawing close, it takes on forms.